When Russia's Postal System Fails
To Deliver, Others Finish the Job

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Armed with a small truck and a quirk of geography, Christian Corbois is tackling Russia's notoriously sluggish postal service in unconventional ways.

In the wee hours of a bleak winter morning, a truck pulls up to a former palace in downtown St. Petersburg and picks up crates filled with letters and packages bound for foreign lands. The truck then embarks on a four-hour drive to a sleepy Finnish town 250...